Disclaimer: I am not Stephenie Meyer and therefore I do not own Twilight or the wonderful characters I screw with.

Chapter 49 – Doubt (Rosalie)

They hadn't even taken off yet and she already felt nauseous. There was less than five minutes until the flight was supposed to take off. She wasn't surprised that Emmett still hadn't arrived.

In spite of his words suggesting otherwise, he was a player and she'd always known it. He didn't know how to keep that thing between his legs in his pants. It was why she'd never wanted to date him to begin with. Well... and he was a cop. She'd already lost one person she loved to the line of duty.

She still remembered the call from Deputy Mark after father had been shot down, and the frantic drive home she'd made with tears streaming down her face. She may not have cried over her drunkard mother, but it had been another story entirely when her father had passed. After she'd moved back into her father's house in Forks, she'd been the most vocal opponent about Emmett taking over as chief of police instead of one of the older deputies. After all, even when she'd been living in Seattle, she was aware of Emmett's sexcapades.

Emmett was hot, had brilliant wit, was funny as hell, knew how to listen, and oozed sex appeal. Not to mention he was good at laying it down... but the problem was that he knew all of it. And he used all of it like he was a gift from god.

Of course, most of that was what attracted her to him. He was confident and he wore it like a glove. He was her type of guy... at least he would be if he wasn't a player.

And the fact that he wasn't here –

"Hello Rosalie," Emmett's voice said softly.

She snapped her head toward the aisle as she opened her eyes. "Emmett." She glanced at her watch to see there was only two minutes left until they were supposed to take off. "Drawing it a little close, aren't you?"

He gave her a wide boyish smile that tempted her to giggle. She was not a giggler.

"Probably for the best. We might have gotten in trouble with flight attendants if I'd gotten here any earlier." He waggled his eyebrows at her as he sat down in the aisle seat next to hers.

She was so tempted to look three seats up since she could practically feel Maggie staring a hole in the side of her head. Stubbornly, she kept her eyes on Emmett instead.

"Oh? And why would we have gotten in trouble with the flight attendants?"

He leaned over and whispered directly into her ear.

A moment later she threw her head back and laughed, her nausea completely forgotten.

Then an announcement came over the jet to fasten their seat belts and please listen to the flight attendants as they went over safety regulations.


AN: A couple quick notes. Firstly, a post will be added to the Cut-takes later tonight (or possibly tomorrow at the latest) with a part of Garrett's story. Secondly, I have both a twitter account and a facebook account to annotate my updates to my stories and my blog. My twitter is JadionaR or facebook is Jadiona Noish. People can follow/friend me on either.